The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 34

Directly she was in the saddle, with her feet in the stirrups and the bridle in her hand, the physician placed around the horse some large braziers full of burning coals, into each of which he threw a perfume composed of all sorts of delicious scents.

Who acts: princess, physician, horse · What happens: be, place, burn, throw, compose, sort · To what, where: saddle, large braziers, perfume, delicious scents

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, physician, horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Directly	directly	ADV	_	6 saddle	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saddle	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saddle	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 saddle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 saddle	det
6	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 feet	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 feet	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feet	nmod:poss
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 saddle	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 stirrups	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stirrups	det
13	stirrups	stirrup	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 feet	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bridle	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bridle	det
16	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stirrups	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 hand	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hand	nmod:poss
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bridle	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 physician	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 physician	det
22	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bridle	conj
23	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 physician	acl
24	around	around	ADP	_	26 horse	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 horse	det
26	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 placed	obl
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 braziers	det
28	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 braziers	amod
29	braziers	brazier	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 placed	obl
30	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 braziers	amod
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 coals	case
32	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 coals	amod
33	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 full	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 each	punct
35	into	into	ADP	_	36 each	case
36	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 stirrups	appos
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 which	case
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 threw	obl
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 threw	nsubj
40	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 each	acl:relcl
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 perfume	det
42	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 threw	obj
43	composed	compose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 perfume	acl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 sorts	case
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 sorts	det
46	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 composed	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 scents	case
48	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 scents	amod
49	scents	scent	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 sorts	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saddle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	princess		the saddle and princess's feet in the stirrups and the bridle in princess's hand and the physician	directly property	tree rules
2	place	participle	the physician not said here	some large braziers		around the horse	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent around horse=Destination
3	burn	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	throw	past	horse	a perfume			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent perfume=Theme of which=Initial_Location
5	compose	participle		a perfume not said here		of all sorts of delicious scents	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sort			delicious scents			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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